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Frank O'Hara in his poem "The Day Lady Died" writes of going to "the tobacconist in the Ziegfeld Theatre" in New York and casually asking "for a carton of Gauloises." In John le Carr's 1979 novel Smiley's People a key plot point involves the concealment of a microfilm in a packet of Gauloises, which are Vladimir's favourite
There's also the occasional but subtle pop culture icon (a shouldered boom box, a ring watch, Elvis Costello in a cameo)
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In it, the recently hired editor George Lundberg, who had eagerly asked Fletcher to submit the article, conveyed to the journals staff that they were under high-level pressure to exercise caution in articles dealing with particularly sensitive political questions